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Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6), last updated in 2004, is a third generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming model. It is *not* VB.NET; it is the predecessor to VB.NET.

I'm looking for a decent sort implementation for arrays in VBA. A Quicksort would be preferred. Or any other sort algorithm other than bubble or merge would suffice.
Please note that this is to work ...

Heavy emphasis on simple. I've never made an installer and I'd rather not have to learn much. A system that I could hand a pile of files to and it would make some smart guesses about where to put them ...

I've been asked to update a VB6 application that's been running on WinXP for the last 6 years. The client wants to use Windows 7. Up until now, the app stored its settings in an INI file located in ...

I need to consume an external web service from my VB6 program. I want to be able to deploy my program without the SOAP toolkit, if possible, but that's not a requirement. I do not have the web service ...

While perusing an application that I'm documenting, I've run across some examples of bang notation in accessing object properties/methods, etc. and in other places they use dot notation for what seems ...

I want to make a simple, simple DLL which exports one or two functions, then try to call it from another program... Everywhere I've looked so far, is for complicated matters, different ways of linking ...

What is the difference between the two. I always thought VBA is somewhat 'crippled' version of VB, but when a friend asked me the other day I had no idea what the actual differences are.
Also, when ...

Yea i know i'm way behind times but what i've got here is a antique VB6 editor app which i believe that no one will be upgrading to .NET soon. It uses a couple of third party DLLs tools and as it's ...

I have a 32 bit in-proc STA VB6 dll. I sadly cannot do anything about this. My C# component greatly benefits from being 64 bit. Is there anyway to call/interface with this 32-bit dll from my 64 bit ...

I have used following piece of code to execute schtasks command from VB6. While executing it, ignores folder if they contains spaces. For example, "C:\program files\test\test.exe" will be converted ...

I have a legacy VB6 application that calls a VB6 DLL, and I am trying to port the VB6 DLL to C# without yet touching the main VB6 application code. The old VB6 DLL had one interface that received a ...

I have a VB6 app that processes for a very, very long time. Killing it directly is not feasible, so I would like to set some sort of flag in the VB6 app. If in my C# app I decide to shut it down, I ...

In the FAQ of the Boomerang decompiler (which currently only decompiles to C-code) they make a brief mention that Visual Basic exes happen to include a lot of metadata, so a Visual Basic decompiler ...

My company has tons of legacy applications that are written in VB6.
We are in transitions from moving VB6 applications to .NET (3.5 specifically).
What would be the best strategy for moving form VB6 ...

Assuming that vb6 does not run on Windows 8 because the VB6 run time libraries are not shipped with Windows 8, would it not be possible to install the VB6 run time library on Windows 8 and then then ...

I have a small VB6 app in which I use the Shell command to execute a program. I am storing the output of the program in a file. I am then reading this file and putting the output on the screen using a ...